PHP Digest number 69 - interesting news, materials and tools (August 24 - September 6, 2015)

We offer to your attention another selection with links to news and materials.

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News and Releases

• PHP 7.0.0 RC 2 - The second release candidate contains fixes for 28 errors found, 7 of which are security related. PHP-7 releases are released strictly in accordance with the plan , which is good news.
• End of PHP 5.4 support - The release of PHP 5.4.45 was the last scheduled branch update.
• PHP 5.5.29 and 5.6.13 updates - Latest releases of current branches. Security issues fixed and bugs fixed.
• PhpStorm 9.5 Early Access Program - A new version of PhpStorm is available for testing as part of the early access program. Among the notable improvements is the integrated REPL. A list of upcoming innovations can be found here .
  Also, JetBrains has announced a new payment model for using products on a subscription basis.
• Vulnerability in several Doctrine projects - A security issue found allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Doctrine Cache, Annotations, ORM and MongoDB ODM users are encouraged to upgrade.
• PHP Frameworks Day 2015 - October 17 in Kiev will host a PHP conference. The program is still being formed, but among the speakers Jordi Boggiano, one of the Composer authors, has already been announced.

Php

• RFC: Callable Types - It is proposed to implement the ability to set prototypes (interfaces) of anonymous functions:
  function reduce(int $a, int $b, callable(int, int):int $reducer) : int {
return $reducer($a, $b);
}

• RFC: More precise float value handling - It is proposed to add the ability to specify the accuracy of real numbers during serialization.
• Google researcher will deal with PHP security issues - In his letter to php.internals, Matt Tait promises to make sure in the short term that all security settings of the compiler and operating system for PHP are enabled by default. In the long term, interested in the implementation of additional features to ensure the safety of PHP-applications. The first result of Matt’s work was the RFC below.
• RFC: Automatic SQL Injection Protection
• Intel researcher will be engaged in the performance of PHP - Bogdan Andone writes that Intel is interested in actively participating in the PHP project and in finding new opportunities to improve performance. Along with the announcement was attached pull request to improve memory management .
• RFC: Generics - The author proposes to implement the concept of generalizations in PHP. A similar feature is already implemented in Hack , and an experimental implementation for PHP is also available.

Instruments

• flarum / flarum - Forum engine in PHP. Although in beta, it looks promising: demo .
• Telegram Bot for PHP - Sent by L0NGMAN .
• rybakit / phive-queue - A queue with time planning and support for various backends. Sent by rybakit .
• khoaofgod / phpfastcache - Very simple, but powerful enough class for caching.
• maximebf / php-debugbar - Debugging panel for PHP.
• elfet / purephp - Key-value storage in pure PHP.
• jonathantorres / construct - The tool allows you to generate a folder and file structure for a new PHP project.
• ircmaxell / Stauros - Experimental library for protection against XSS.
• paragonie / anti-csrf - Full-featured anti-CSRF library.
• sjparkinson / static-review - A framework for writing Git-hooks in PHP. Tutorial with an example of use.
• zendframework / zend-expressive - A new project from Zend that allows you to quickly implement middleware solutions based on PSR-7 .
• phpro / grumphp - Tool installs git -hooks to automatically check the quality of PHP code.
• raveren / kint - Beautiful replacement for the var_dump() , print_r() and debug_backtrace() . Supports CLI mode.
• bravo3 / orm - ORM for NoSQL repositories like Redis.
• thephpleague / container 2.0 - Updated DI-container.
• umpirsky / centipede - The tool checks the availability of all pages of the application.
• Php Inspections (EA Extended) - An extension for PhpStorm that complements the capabilities of static code analysis. Sent kalessil .

Study materials

• PHP 7

  
  
  • Getting ready for PHP 7
  • Laracasts.com: PHP 7 Up and Running
  
  

• Symfony

  
  
  • Routing Component Symfony 2.7 - Routing
  • Symfony Routing - How to match the route based on the host - Describes how to limit the route for certain domains or subdomains.
  • EventListeners as Collectors in Symfony
  • Using Codeception for symfony projects
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Set Yii2 Behavior for storing trees in the database and sharing them
  • How not to write comparisons. Symfony2 vs Yii: which framework to choose in 2015?
  • yii2tech - A set of useful extensions for Yii 2.
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • PHP Social Network - Video course from www.codecourse.com for creating a social network using Laravel.
  • Real-Time chat with Laravel 5 and pusher.com
  • Comparing Blade and Twig Patterns in Laravel
  • Laravel: Ratchet - WebSocket. Learning to work with sockets , 2
  
  
• Auto-IDs IDs - What Threatens and What to Do - In addition to the zackkitzmiller / tiny-php mentioned in the article for obfuscation of identifiers there are also jenssegers / optimus , ivanakimov / hashids.php .
• A guide to using Libsodium in PHP projects - About solving cryptographic problems in PHP using libsodium and the libsodium-php extension.
• Logging with Monolog - Example of sending logger messages to Slack messenger.
• Voice-Driven PHP Applications Using API.ai
• PDO again - the right way to work with databases in PHP
• Migration of existing users to a new password hashing algorithm
• Effectively select random elements from a large array
• Rethinking Event Listeners - Logic should not be written in the event handler.
• We integrate Paypal payment into web-application
• The evolution of the cloud log collection and the log collector in open source
• The digest of interesting materials from the world of Drupal # 12
• Accelerate queries to the database using PDO and iterators

Audio and video

• How to start learning PHP?
• Basics of arrays in PHP, useful functions for working with arrays
• Developing a PHP extension to implement a resizable array
• Video recordings of reports from the conference phpDay 2015

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